World's largest aircraft has an engine blowout

World's largest aircraft has an engine blowout

A Qantas Airlines A-380 aircraft made an emergency landing at Singapore's Changi Airport on Thursday.

The double-decker plane, flight QF32 bound for Sydney from Singapore, was carrying 433 passengers and 26 crew when it ran into trouble shortly after take-off and had to return to the city-state's Changi Airport leaving a trail of smoke

The news.com.au web site quoted Indonesian media reports, as saying there had been some sort of explosion over the Indonesian island of Batam, near Singapore, at about 9.15 am local time.

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Image: Qantas Airways A-380 passenger plane QF32 with its partially damaged engine sits on the tarmac after making an emergency landing at Changi airport in SingaporePhotographs: David Loh/Reuters